All Posts by k11keeper

I want the option to be able to choose tbh. Out of all the MMOs I've played the most none of them have the same control setup. I played DAoC for a few years and it was WASD if i remember correctly. Then I played ffxi and it's control scheme was completely unique when it comes to any game. Then i played L2 which was point and click and i never had any issues with that myself. Then I went back to ffxi with it's crazy control setup.

I would like to be able to choose and not be limited to the normal WASD which everyone seems to prefer for some reason. I think it's because it's what they are used not necessarily the most beneficial.

Wow amazing pic i might have to change my background on my PC.

I have to admit when coming from games like DAoC and SWG the controls in ffxi really made me angry I never switched to compact because it wasn't until I got used to the controls that I read that I could change it. Now i wish more MMOs had an option for the ffxi controls. I don't even need to use my mouse with the default settings I can just sit back and relax with my wireless keyboard in my lap its great.

Well the camera in ffxi did take some getting used to when I first started but after you get used to it other games will be hard to get used to. SE didn't follow the traditional layout with there MMO they seemed to make most aspects fromt he ground up. If you have camera issues though I would not recommend playing Neverwinter Nights 2 that camera was absolutely rediculous. I could never get used to it and moving around a dungeon was almost impossible at times.

The reason /range <t> works outside of battle would have to be because if you were in combat mode it would be almost impossible to pull and get back to your party without getting wacked to hell. Once the mob is on the tank though using ranged attacks is cake.

I'm not a huge fan of holiday events in MMOs but if they can somehow find a unique way of doing it I'm not against it. What I don't like is when games do the same thing pretty much every year it gets boring. One of the things I really hated in ffxi was the cherry blossum festivals. They were pretty much the same every single year with a few different aspects.

Well being an Elitist is no easy task. You have to be smarter and better then everyone else but for some reason it comes to me so easily I'm not sure why but I guess I'm blessed like that.

FPS: I would have to go with UT GOTY and UT 2k4

Played both of them and they were great games played 2k4 more then any other FPS game probably because I was in the most awesome clan ever go Kush! "If you can't beat um, ban um" that was our motto after we went undefeited on VCTF and everyone said we were cheating. It wasn't cheating we were just that good.

RPG: I'd have to go with ElderScrolls 3 Morrowind.

I don't think there was anything I didn't do in that game and the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions. If you want a free for all RPG with a decent storyline check it out. I couldn't get into Oblivion because it seemed more of the same just better graphics and a few other percks.

MMORPG: FFXI for sure

I love this game and always will it's unique with the party based system and the community is the best I've seen in any MMO to date. The thing is I just don't have the time or patience for it at this point in my life maybe after I move to my new job I'll have a better schedule and can start playing again more often.

RTS: I'd have to go with Age of empires 2 age of kings

I remember many a LAN party with this game at my friends house it was a great way to spend a weekend or friday night. Played some Age of Mythology too but it didn't have the depth or amount of races you could choose like Age of kings had

Fighting: TEKKEN!!!!

I love the tekken series my favorite would have to be tekken tag ot tekken 4. I know a lot of people didn't like tekken 4 because of the maps but I prefer it more then tekken 5 which is basically the same game with different maps.

Other: I'm not sure what genre Mario Party and mario cart would fall into but I loved playing those game with my brother-in-law and all of his friends and family many a great night was spent playing those games and when it comes to mashing buttons really really fast I cannot be beat!

As far as quality and being able to play for a long time I would have to go with Anarchy online. As far a decent free MMO that can be fun for a month or two before you need something new I would have to recommend Flyff or any of those other free games made by that company.

I'm not sure if Blizzard is working on a WoW2 right now. WoW is still a relatively new MMO right now and they've only released 1 expansion soon to be 2. I can't remember how old EQ was before they made EQ2 but some people thought that was too early because they were still playing EQ. Another thing is they are making tons and tons of money keeping WoW going right now with all those subscriptions making a new game wouldn't be profitable right now. Another thing is I think they were just spending a bunch of there time on Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3. If they are gonna make another MMO maybe they will try there hand at a sci-fi MMO and use the awesome success and world that is starcraft. That's something I could see blizzard doing. I mean hey it worked amazing for them once why not try it again.

Well first off Larry I don't know where you are from or if english is even your first language but it took me a while to understand your writing with all the spelling and grammar issues you seem to be having.

Though when you talk about the graphics you always seem to bring up stuff about the grass. How it has no texture and the like. FIrst off I have to agree with you when it comes to grass in ffxi its normally green painted with specs there is not texture and most of the time it's only 2D. When it is 3D it's normally just a patch here or there. But i have to say as far as other things go like armor and the like FFXI does a pretty good job considering it's older then games like L2 and WoW. I think the graphics are pretty good even compared to games now. Granted it's no AoC and when you compare ffxi graphics I'm not sure if you are comparing them to other MMOs or other games in general because MMOs usually don't have the graphics of an FPS game for a various reasons.

On top of that I'm guessing you still haven't made it to endgame yet or even attempted to try anything besides lvling and Missions so far. Saying FFXI does not have content is about the most rediculous thing I've ever heard. FFXI by far has more content then any game I have ever played and I've played a few. DAoC, SWG, L2, AO, EVE, EQ2, and a few others not worth mentioning like Flyff.

I just don't get it. How are these boring and unoriginal? I mean c'mon how different can you make one sword look from another. As far as I'm concerned from what all I've seen from the weapn designs of Aion most of them are extremely new and unique. I don't know what games you have been playing but most games don't have weapons with such extravagence and detail like Aion does. Not all the weapons are glowing with blue and red flames either. I would agree that having oversized glowing weapons is definately a mark of a Korean game though. They sure like there stuff to stand out when it comes to that.

Originally posted by Cynthe

Originally posted by Trissa

There is a thing i cant understand very well of this sentence, how can be that WoW get 10 millions subs while the model, EQ, just got to 500K ? something is wrong here.  May be a reason could be that Blizzard developed  something enough different to attract 20 times more players?

Have a nice day

 

There's a very good reason for that. Everquest was NOT mainstream in it's golden age, only geeky boys in their basements played it along with a few geeky girls, sorry for the stereotype but that's the easiest way I can explain it real quick, and we know geeky is cool anyway ;P.

WoW is played by everyone and anyone. Hence the bigger numbers. Blizzard is a master at ripping off other people's ideas, repolishing it, and marketing it to high heavens. They are not so much better then other games but they are responsible for bringing more masses to the massively gaming world.

Also the success of Blizzard is not because they did something different, it's because they took what was already done and made it far less painful and more enjoyable, ie: enter easy mode.

Well another thing you might all be forgetting is the absolutely awesome success of the Original Warcraft games. Did you guys ever play Warcraft 3 and the frozen thrown expansion? Millions of people played that game and I know for a fact that a lot of them tried out WoW as there first MMO and that just got more and more people to try it. As you mentioned about marketing WoW was and still is probably the best marketed MMO of all time. I mean I almost wet myself when I saw a commercial for FFXI 5 yrs ago and I don't remember ever seeing a commercial for any other MMO unless it was on G4 or something to that effect. Now you can't watch TV without seeing Mr T or minnie Me talking about their stupid WoW character. EQ was never marketed like, that it was more undergroundish even though it was probably one of the most successful underground games of all time.

Wow if you quit before ToAH then i have to say this is almost a completely different game then when you stopped playing. It would take pages to go into how much has changed. The biggest is now lvls 50+ are done in a competely different place in the new areas and the xp flies like it never did before. The merit point system has become very indepth and there is a lot of fun endgame content to fill your time with. Also there is a lot of new sets of armor you can only get by doing things in the ToAU areas. The main activities would be salvage, assault, einherjar, and nyzule isle. These are all fun and einherjar which wasn't liked at first was made more "available" to people that didn't have the time or desire to do it before.

As far and Wings of the goddess goes the main things i the new jobs and a combat system called campaign. Campaign is when you join one of the three nations armies in the past and go fight all the beastmen hordes attacking the cities and outposts. It was used a bunch when if first came out and now I think people just do it to pass the time when waiting for other things to do. It's sort of like besieged which is ToAU but there are more benefits, it happens a ton more often, and you get a lot more experience for it.

As far as storyline missions go ToAU is complete and all the missions are available but they are still introducing content for the WoTG expansion. I would say though that if you have finished CoP when you played before you will have no trouble with these storyline missions. Who knows though maybe some of the missions from WoTG will be a bit more challenging but good storylines just like SE always likes to give us.

I think MMOs are definely recession proof. In fact I think people that have once quit playing might start back up again. This is because all the other things we do to entertain ourselves are a lot more expensive then an MMO. For instance if I was to out to a dinner and a movie (even if dinner was fast food) that would cost me more then a months subscription to an MMO. So in thinking that I could stay at home more often and save a lot more money while still enjoying my freetime. Another thing I like to go snowboarding during the winter if money gets real tight and have to decide whether to spend the $30-45 for a lift ticket or stay home for weekend what do you think I'll do? Stopping my subscription wouldn't even put a dent into going snowboarding even just once a month when you consider the gas, lift tickets, and so on even if you don't count equipement prices.

Other things like going out to bar for a night will cost well over $15 even if you just have a few drinks, I bet a cab drive would cost more then that and if it didn't you could just walk anyways.

I would however think things like going to public parks, museums and such will increase in a recesion because things like this provide free entertainment and socialization unless you count the gas it costs to get wherever those places are.

Originally posted by Illius

I'm hoping that a game will come along and grab my attention again to the point I would rather play it then come here and post.  As it stands now none of the games out there interest me so I have time to come here and complain.

Lol that explains me right now. I've been a member of MMORPG.com since oh well before SWG was released but not until recently have I spent this much time traversing the forums trying to find a game that might interest me because I'm so bored with the ones I've played for years and I've tried anything supposedly worth trying and didn't enjoy it.

Yeah this is one of the coolest features I think ffxi has. I wonder why there aren't more games that can be played together on different consoles or against PC. My friend plays UT and COD4 on PS3 it would be nice to play with or against him on my pc. I'm not gonna spend the money on more copies of those games just so i can do that though.

Originally posted by ic0n67

650? that is kinda sad ... I have gotten a little over a year of game play since 2003 ... If you like it now, you probably would have love it back then when we were all trying to figure out exactly how to play. It was very fluid back then when no one knew what to do .. like take this exchange:

So back in the day people would get massive alliances together to unlock Beastmaster. Eighteen people going for the flower on Qufim Island was not uncommon. Later people would hire (yeah pay someone) to distract the Kraken in order to get all the people down to get the cutscene and get out. So that is were I came in as a level 30 BLM.

Me >> Hey Linkshell ... just soloed the Beastmaster quest
Linkshell Person >> o.O! bs ... you can't solo BST
Me >> sure you can I just did
Linkshell Person >> who distracted the kraken for you?
Me >> no one ...
Linkshell Person >> so someone aggroed it and you went down ... that isnt soloing
Me >> The Kraken was there the whole time
Linkshell Person >> (lots of explitives attacking my character, sexuality, and anything else you can think of)
Linkshell Person >> Okay how did you do it then?
Me >> Sneak Oil
(About 5 minutes of silence)
Linkshell Person >> ... you (Bastard Sword)

 

Yeah ... those were the days ... those days when people would wait for the earth elemental that pops on the way from the highlands to Selbina to move away so people could get away, only to not pay attention to the Goblin right next to it that is looking at them. So the end up casting sneak and then dying anyway. ... yeah ... fun fun times ...

Omg those were the days, I remember when it took hour and at least 10 people helping you to get your keys for kazham. Now you can just grab a friend whose a thf and get it done in about 1/60th of the time it used to take. Oh yeah and back then by the time you got your keys you lost so much xp getting them you had to go back to qufim anyways so you could be high enough lvl to go party in kazham.

I thought my play time was bad, over 250 days on one character and 65 on the other. I thought my friend was insane I think he's well over 400 and he started after I did.

Well good continue to play ffxi it's a great game. I suggest when asking for advice though you might want to listen to the people you have asked instead of just arguing with them over and over again. That really doesn't help you or them in any way possible.

Now with you comment about the grey stone walls in ffxi. I would have to agree with you that 4 of 6 major cities in ffxi are like this. The funny thing is all the really awesome looking places in the game are where you would spend your time doing missions, quests, and the like. Get sky acces, get sea access, try finding your way to places like Aydeewa Subterrane or Alzadaal Undersea Ruins those are just a few of the really awesome looking places the world of Vana'diel. As you did mention though ffxi is a 6 year old game but point me towards a game that old and that still has graphics that look thisgreat. As far as I'm concerned it looks better then a lot of the newer pastel colored games out  right now with cartoony graphics masceraiding as good looking games.

I think a game with a western style of flavor would be totally feasible if done correctly.

Think cowboys vs indians, you could have all different sorts of weapons whether you want six shooters, rifles, bow and arrow. Finding a way to have mounted fights on horses would be really cool. You wouldn't have to just be a cowboy or and indian though. You could be a bank robber or a law man, mercenary, soldier, miner all sorts of things would be possible. As far as loot goes there could be things you get like cool awesome cowboy boots that let you run faster or increase your accuracy with a gun. All the things that MMOs have today with stats on gear could crossover into a western style MMO. People could be doctors all kinds of crazy things you just gotta think outside the box and use your imagination.

The funny thing is i probably wouldn't play but i bet some people would love it just look at city of heroes no way would i play that but they made it work. MMOs don't all have to be hi-fantasy and sci-fi I think something like this would be pretty awesome with the right team of developers.

My favorite PVE game would most definetly have to be FFXI. It has so much content throughout the game and I've never played a game with as much great endgame PvE. It has laundry list of fun and challenging things to do and probably the best community I have ever seen in an MMO do to its group centricity.

Though there has been reasons I've quit in the past for some reason I always come back months later. I think one of the biggest reasons is the fact that even if some don't consider it a great MMO SE always finds new and exciting ways to add new and awesome content to the game. One of my biggest problems is the fact that there is just way too much to do it's hard to decide what to do with your time in the game.